John wattees



(No Model.)

J. WATTERS.

Box LOOP; No. 269,977. Patentefi Jan. 2, 1883. I

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UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE.

JOHN WATCHERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOX-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,977, dated January 2, 1863, Application filed November 18,1882. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN WAT'IERS, of New York city, county and Statebf New York, have invented an Improved Box-Loop, of which the following is a specification. t

Figure 1 is a face or bottom View, partly in and Fig. 4 a cross-section, of an ordinary boxloop. I

This invention relates to a new box-loop for carriage-curtains, harness, and other purposes.

The invention consists in making the loop of an angular form, molded ot' indie-rubber or analogous substance, and slit on one side.

It also consists in the combination of said slit rubber loop with an inner metal loop whose prongs project through the slit of the rubber loop.

In the drawings, the letter A- represents the rubber-loop molded to form angles a a, and made with a slit, 1), along the bottom. This B, of metal or other material, which has clinching-prongs cl d projecting through the slit b, for the purpose of serving as fasteners. A buckle or buckles may be applied to the ends of the loop B or of a plate connected with the slit loop A.

The special advantage of the molded angular loop A over the leather and metal loops of ordinary construction canbeseen from an in- I spection of Figs. 3 and 4. An ordinary leather loop is made by bending and pressing'the leather to the angular form; but the outer circumference of theloop being greater than the inner, the result is that the leather is either torn, as at e, at the outer corners or materially weakened kit/H1086 places, or that it is unduly wrinkled on the inner side. The same objections apply to loops that are made of bent metal.

In molding the slit loop A out of india-rubher or any other substance the requisite excess of material can be given at the outer corners,

to, as indicated in Fig. 2, without weakening J OE N VVATIERS.

Witnesses:

GUSTAV So-nNEPPE, JULIUS HUELSEN, Jr. 

